Application of Design of Experiment (DoE) for Parameters Optimization in Compression Moulding for Flax Reinforced Biocomposites

Published Date
Procedia Chemistry
2016, Vol.19:433–440, doi:10.1016/j.proche.2016.03.035
5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials, Minerals and Environment (RAMM) & 2nd International Postgraduate Conference on Materials, Mineral and Polymer (MAMIP)
Open Access, Creative Commons license

• Author 

• M.I. Mat Kandar ^a,,
 
• H.M. Akil ^a,b

• aSchool of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Engineering Campus, UniversitiSains Malaysia, 14300 NibongTebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
• bCluster for Polymer Composites (CPC), Science and Engineering Research Center, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Available online 24 March 2016.

Abstract

Lately, widespread research on polymer composites that consist of natural fiber as reinforcement have been widely discussed. In this work, an attempt on optimizing the hot press forming process parameters using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) have been made to improve the mechanical properties of the woven flax/PLA composites. Three independent process variables, including moulding temperature, time and pressure were studied. Through the Box Behnken approach, a set of experiment runs based on various combination of compression moulding via Minitab 16 were established. As a results the optimum value for the variables of compression moulding technique parameters were 200 °C, 3 min and 30 bar in order to yield 48.902 kJ/m^-2ofimpact strength.

Keywords

Response surface methodology

Flax fibre reinforced composites 

Compression moulding

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